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By Mira Potter Schwartz and Rabbi Ariel Milan-Polisar\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Parshat Metzora marks the end of the instructions that detail what a person afflicted with <\/span>tzaraat<\/span><\/em>, \u201cscaly disease\u201d, has to do to become pure again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The processes include various rituals that are laid out in very deliberate ways, with specific instructions for the order in which they should be performed. The text outlines special instructions for those who are poor. Commentators suggest that the word \u05d3\u05dc, <\/span>dal<\/span><\/em>, \u201cpoor,\u201d could refer either to someone who is without means (as the text explicates) or someone who is severely ill. In a world where COVID is still a reality, and there are procedures for returning to normality after testing positive for COVID, the parallels are undeniable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We know that our healthcare system favors those with greater resources. In a 2020 study done at the Center for Health Policy at the University of Virginia, doctors found that, \u201c<\/span>Lower education<\/span> levels and greater percentages of black residents are strongly associated with higher rates of<\/span> both COVID-19 cases and fatalities.\u201d This study tells us that our current system doesn\u2019t provide<\/span> equal opportunity for all individuals to recover from illnesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When individuals are afflicted with<\/span> tzaraat <\/span><\/i>in the Torah, we are reminded that, even then, the Israelites knew that this was not a<\/span> result of something they did. Their afflictions were out of their control. So too, with COVID-19,<\/span> we know that the socioeconomic status of individuals is not a cause of the disease.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus, as the Torah provides an opportunity for recovery regardless of poverty level, so too<\/span> should our health system. Parshat Metzora shows us how the leadership provided different<\/span> recovery pathways dependent on means, which is something we can certainly learn from today.<\/span> Everyone deserves adequate healthcare and the opportunity to recover and bounce back from<\/span> illness, unrestricted by their circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This year is the shmita year: Shmita means a sabbatical year for the Earth but also for ourselves, our communities, and our world. Each week we continue to share thoughts on how the weekly parsha can help guide our thinking around shmita themes of work and rest, wealth and debt, responsible land use, fair labor practices, private and public property ownership, and physical and spiritual revitalization.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

See here for more information on the Hazon Shmita project, and its 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Having been summoned to interpret Pharaoh\u2019s dream, Joseph showed himself as not merely an exceptional \u201coneirocritic\u201d (dream interpreter). He was also a leader in the making. The simple interpretation of Pharaoh\u2019s dream about cows and ears of grain was that there would be seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. That is really all Joseph had to say, but he said far more<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Prior to summoning Joseph to interpret his dream, Pharaoh had already heard from \u201call the necromancers of Egypt and all its (Egypt\u2019s) sages (41:8).\u201d The midrash tells us that these interpretations included predictions that Pharaoh would have seven daughters who would subsequently die or would conquer seven countries that he would subsequently lose. Those interpretations related the basic theme of good followed by bad.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Clearly, Pharaoh was not satisfied by what he heard from his necromancers, because he then summoned Joseph, who provided the interpretation of years of plenty followed by years of famine. It was essentially the same good-then-bad theme as had already been proposed, so what was different in Joseph\u2019s response that warranted Pharaoh putting him in a position of leadership? Something about Joseph\u2019s presentation resonated with Pharoah and made more of an impression on him than the previous interpretations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Before commencing with his interpretation, Joseph qualified his analysis by making clear that what he was about to say was not opinion, but prophecy from God. Only then did he proceed with the explanation of God\u2019s plan for years of plenty and years of famine as represented by the fat and skinny cows and sheaves. Perhaps that carried some weight with Pharaoh, but there was one more significant difference in Joseph\u2019s presentation that Pharaoh rewarded by appointing Joseph to a position of leadership.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph\u2019s response to Pharaoh went beyond offering the minimum of information that was asked of him. He interpreted the dream, and then he proceeded to provide a plan for the solution: \u201cSeek out a wise man and appoint him over the land of Egypt\u201d to develop a plan by which food can be stored during the seven years of plenty as a reserve for the seven years of famine so that the land won\u2019t be destroyed (Genesis 41:29-36).\u201d<\/span> Joseph gave Pharaoh the same good news\/bad news report as the necromancers, but then showed Pharoah a path for leveraging the good to weather the bad.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph was a dreamer, a visionary, a strategist and a believer in God\u2019s command of the world. 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We walk through the world with the knowledge that bad things will happen. That\u2019s the nature of mortality. And yet, we largely live in a healthy state of denial that allows us to enjoy and make meaning in the present and to dream about the future. However, denial can go too far. We humans have a mixed track record on how to respond to clear and present danger. Maybe the specter is too frightening to \u201cbelieve,\u201d or too abstract \u2013 not clear and present enough. Perhaps we lack the leaders who can guide us through an anxious time with a sure hand and a clear and optimistic vision. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Take climate change for example. For decades scientists have given us the gift of identifying this phenomenon coupled with concrete advice on how to respond. Alas, as a species we have been wildly and disastrously unresponsive. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Against this backdrop, Pharaoh\u2019s hasty and unequivocal embrace of his Hebrew prisoner\u2019s dream interpretation is particularly astonishing. \u00a0What leader would so willingly embrace bad news?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer lies in Joseph\u2019s astute leadership at this moment of intense anxiety. First, Joseph diminishes Pharoah\u2019s confusion and anguish by \u201cshrinking the change\u201d\u2014don\u2019t be overwhelmed, these are not two dreams but one. There is one distinct message here and this advanced knowledge a gift from God. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Next, he delivers the bad news clearly and directly: seven years of plenty followed by seven years of severe famine. To be sure, this is terrible news, and if Joseph had stopped here, Pharaoh very well may have sent him back to prison. \u00a0But Joseph insists on the interpretation reiterating that \u201cthe matter has been determined by God\u201d and then, without missing a beat, offers a full blown strategic plan for the next fourteen years including a chain of command, staffing structure, set of procedures and an inspired vision for the outcome. Confronted with both the inevitability of God\u2019s plan and the possibility that Joseph\u2019s vision and leadership suggests, Pharaoh and his entire court accept the bad news and embrace Joseph\u2019s response.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph models leadership during a time of anxiety, at once acknowledging the overwhelm and fear and at the same time, tapping into the possibility of human ingenuity and faith. <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":54862,"alt":"","title":"jo-end-leadership","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","width":696,"height":348,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","medium_large-width":696,"medium_large-height":348,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","large-width":696,"large-height":348,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","1536x1536-width":696,"1536x1536-height":348,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","2048x2048-width":696,"2048x2048-height":348,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","post_full_size-width":696,"post_full_size-height":348,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","home_baner-width":696,"home_baner-height":348}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Joseph: Leadership in an Age of Anxiety","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Acknowledging the fear, while tapping into human ingenuity and faith","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":54862,"alt":"","title":"jo-end-leadership","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","width":696,"height":348,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","medium_large-width":696,"medium_large-height":348,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","large-width":696,"large-height":348,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","1536x1536-width":696,"1536x1536-height":348,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","2048x2048-width":696,"2048x2048-height":348,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","post_full_size-width":696,"post_full_size-height":348,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","home_baner-width":696,"home_baner-height":348}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Genesis","chapter":"41","chapter_main_number":"41","date":"20251026","wall_id":"41"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"375","name":"Faith","old_id":"775"},{"term_id":"402","name":"Leadership","old_id":"802"},{"term_id":"502","name":"Fear","old_id":"902"}]},{"order":6,"id":"39635","color":"#e0e9ef","size":"1","name":"\u201cWho lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?\u201d ","post_title":"\u201cWho Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?\u201d","slug":"who-lives-who-dies-who-tells-your-story","old_id":"39635","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34235,"post_title":"Marc Gitler","slug":"marc-gitler","old_id":"34235","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Gitler","description":"Rabbi Marc Gitler, a recipient of the Wexner Fellowship, was ordained at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and earned an MPA from NYU . 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\u201cWho lives, who dies, Who tells your story?\u201d - Lin Manuel Miranda.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph knows, perhaps even determines, who lives and who dies through his interpretation of dreams. Yet he waits and waits and waits languishing in prison as nobody tells his story. His version of events, as he described in the last chapter to the Pharaoh\u2019s cupbearer, is one of complete innocence \u201cI was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, nor have I done anything here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet when his story is finally related by the cupbearer to Pharaoh only one important detail about the protagonist remains \u201ca Hebrew lad, a servant to the chief steward.\u201d Pharaoh is desperate to understand his incomprehensible dreams, but if the cupbearer is truly sorry for forgetting Joseph up to this point, and wants to convince Pharaoh to release a convicted felon, he might mention that this interpreter of dreams is a kind and decent person. One that despite being in jail he claims innocence\u2026yet the only detail he mentions is his ethnicity. \u00a0Sadly, this is not the only instance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Joseph rebuffs the advances of Potiphar\u2019s wife she tells her servants \u201cLook, he brought us a Hebrew (<\/span>letzachek<\/span><\/i>) to dally with us.\u201d When Joseph invites the brothers to eat a meal with him they are served and eat separately \u201cbecause the Egyptians could not dine with the Hebrews, since that would be abhorrent to the Egyptians.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Racism is pervasive in Egypt. People are described by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To Pharaoh\u2019s credit, the racism is not in the palace. Following Joseph\u2019s interpretation of the dreams and economic plan Pharaoh exclaims \u201cCould we find another like him, a man in whom is the spirit of God?\u201d Pharaoh recognizes Joseph\u2019s abilities (due to God) and allows him to run the country. Joseph wears the finest Egyptian clothing, rides around in the poshest wagons, and Pharaoh even serves as Joseph\u2019s matchmaker, marrying him off to the daughter of a priestly family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet, while the overt racism may disappear when a Hebrew is in charge and helping the country reach unprecedented economic power, when it is not quashed it remains underground and it is only a matter of time until Joseph is an unknown, and his people are \u201cthe fifth column\u201d ready to bring down the ruling party.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Who lives and who dies are questions that many of us leave to the Almighty, but each of us are responsible in the way we describe others, how we frame, describe and tell stories.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":103624,"alt":"","title":"-6249851ea7f6f--6249851ea7f70gen41-racism different black 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\"You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!\" Why is this the accusation Joseph decides to fabricate? While there may be concrete, historical explanations to offer, it's fascinating to note the literary elements that have run all through the story that Joseph combines as the story comes to a head.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is revealing that brings revelation, but there is also revealing that brings deception.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph's accusation resonates first and foremost with his own traumatic experience with the brothers. They thought that to strip him of the coat that represented his special, preferred status, would reveal the absurdity of his dreams, and expose Joseph as a fraud. Instead, they were the ones who needed to deceive Jacob into false recognition- \"Recognize, please, is this your son's coat or not?\" This deception is echoed in the episode with Potiphar's wife, where she too, aims to reveal, but ends up deceiving.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Any time a person seeks to force another to \"reveal themselves\", from within their own perspective, their own needs, and their own fears, what inevitably ensues is violence, and deception.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph, too, is trying to reveal. His accusation of the brothers is also a projection- if anyone is acting like a spy in this story, it is he, eavesdropping on conversations he's not supposed to understand, hatching complicated plots, playing mind games. But the revealing he seeks is not one that he will violently impose on his brothers, but one that he will bring them to undertake themselves. Like Tamar, who used the same call to \"recognize, please\" as the brothers had earlier, but allowed Judah himself to make the decision to uncover his sin, Joseph's ingenious schemes lead the brothers to reveal themselves. 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Joseph was masterful in both sides of allocating scarce resources: ethical allocation when there is not enough, and making the resource less scarce. Both require planning, leadership and community engagement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It began with dreams. In <\/span>Vision and Leadership<\/span><\/em>, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik saw in Joseph\u2019s dreams:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The brothers \u201cwere taken aback\u2026by the very story that placed himself and them within a different society, not the pastoral but an agricultural one\u2026.he beheld visions, prophesying and preaching social change.\u201d Joseph and his family were shepherds, Joseph\u2019s dream of sheaves of wheat put them in an unfamiliar, and so frightening agricultural milieu. Joseph\u2019s second dream of stars, sun and moon sent the same message but the setting was more familiar. Shepherds saw and slept under brilliant stars every night.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Pharaoh\u2019s pair of dreams followed a similar pattern. Cows in ancient Egypt were sacred. Pharaohs suckled at the cow goddess Hathor. A dream of cows emerging from the life giving Nile River, fat healthy cows eaten by thin sickly cows, must have terrified Pharaoh and his dream interpreters. Sacred cows were followed by ears of corn, fat and healthy, thin and sickly. The second object - corn - was more familiar, less frightening.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph understood that <\/span>to implement social change, the unfamiliar, the frightening must be paired with the familiar, the comforting.<\/em> Joseph oversaw a 14 year plan to leverage the successful harvests of the first seven years to have enough grain for 7 years of famine. This required the people\u2019s trust.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Commentators tells us that Joseph became acquainted with the populace and warned them. He taxed the people 20% of their grain. Joseph constructed and oversaw granaries in every city, preventing hoarding and profiteering, thereby sustaining the confidence of the people. <\/span>Hunger is a national government problem and must be addressed on that level.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Joseph also set a <\/span>personal<\/em> <\/span>example of making the resource less scarce. \u201cTwo sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived.\u201d (42:50) The Talmudic ruling regarding population control during a famine is based on this action. \u201c<\/span>marital relations are forbidden in time of famine\u201d (Taanit 11a).<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>When fewer people need a resource, it is less scarce.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The famine occurred across the region, throwing a monkey wrench into Joseph\u2019s careful planning. Hungry Canaanites flocked to Egypt for sustenance. Joseph could have turned away his neighbors but he did not. Hunger is <\/span>very<\/em> powerful and frightening. Joseph distributed the grain widely.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When food is short, people have little to lose and are willing to risk their lives to feed themselves and their families, leading to wars and revolutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hunger was now an international problem. Supplying food to Canaan was the right thing to do, ethically, politically and militarily.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph used his God-given wisdom and his skills to protect resource in years of plenty and distribute it wisely in years of famine.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":103651,"alt":"","title":"-6249c422abdda--6249c422abddbgen42-long term 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Joseph remembered his dreams (42:9). This phrase \u201cand X remembered y\u201d appears three other times in Genesis (8:1; 19:29 and 30;22) and is intended to let readers know not just that there is memory, but there is action. In the other three instances, God is doing the remembering and remembers Noah to make the waters of the flood recede, Abraham to save his nephew Lot in Sodom and Rachel to open her womb and enable her to have a child. Remembrance is <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> just a thought, it involves tangible \u00a0action.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So when readers see that Joseph, following this well-established pattern of remembering for action, is involved in remembering, we are forewarned that it will be leading to something. With his memory of his dreams of them bowing to him, their awareness that he is the one they must be willing to acknowledge as the leader, Joseph sets his plot in motion. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Professor Uriel Simon has taught that these passages should be titled \u201cHow Joseph Educated his Brothers\u201d for the memory is put in place to lead to the brothers to re-enact placing one of their own in a pit as they did to him (37:24), but with a decidedly different outcome. The proof of someone\u2019s having done true repentance, according to Maimonides, is for the person to be in the same situation as he was when he sinned and yet not to sin again. Many wonder what Joseph\u2019s motivations for accusing his brothers of being spies and not revealing himself to them are; I believe he wanted to give them a chance to rethink their actions and to change both as individuals and as a group.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph\u2019s desire with his memory here, is to impose his interpretation of his dreams upon the lives of his brothers and to enable them to change in the process. It is a complicated plan, and takes two iterations with both Simeon (42:24) being jailed and Benjamin under threat of incarceration (44:12,17) before the brothers are able to plead on behalf of one of their number. 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In a more ordinary family, Jacob\u2019s eldest son Reuben might have assumed he\u2019d inherit the leadership mantle of the family. The fact that he is not chosen as leader is less surprising in light of Ishmael\u2019s rejection in favor of Isaac and Esau\u2019s rejection in favor of Jacob.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The general reason for Reuben\u2019s disqualification from leadership is the incident with Bilhah recounted in 35:22, but his statements and actions in chapters 37 and 42 also indicate a general lack of suitability for leadership.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After Joseph the vizier demands the brothers bring him Benjamin, the brothers generally reckon that their actions against Joseph have lead to punishment (v. 21) Reuben takes the opportunity to say \u201cI told you so\u201d in verse 22, responding \u201cDid I not tell you, \u2018Do no wrong to the boy\u2019? But you paid no heed. Now comes the reckoning for his blood.\u201d What might Reuben hope to accomplish with a statement of this nature?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Later, when the family returns home and Jacob is confronted with the news that Benjamin must go to Egypt so that Simeon can be returned and so the family can secure further provisions, Reuben tries to convince his father to send Benjamin in his care. He says, \u201cYou may kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him to you.\u201d (v. 37)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This declaration belies a cavalier disregard for human life and a lack of understanding of Jacob\u2019s suffering. Does Reuben really believe that killing his sons will make Jacob forget the deaths of his?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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43:10- For we could have been there and back twice <\/span>lulei hitmahmahnu<\/span><\/em> if we had not dawdled.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A short essay on a long word. The word <\/span>hitmahmeha<\/span><\/em> is a word one can linger over, especially since that is what it means: dawdle, delay, tarry. Might that suggest an onomatopoeic origin? Or is it a Hawaiian borrowing? (That\u2019s a joke - it just looks like a Polynesian type collection of vowels). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is listed as coming from a four-letter root (those are relatively uncommon) that would be \u05de\u05d4\u05de\u05d4, <\/span>m-h-m-h<\/span><\/em>. This is probably unrelated to another word in our chapter that seems similar, though (both in sound structure and possible semantic connections): <\/span>vayitmehu<\/span><\/em>, \u201c<\/span><\/i>the men looked at one another in astonishment\u201d (v. 33), which comes from the root \u05ea-\u05de-\u05d4, <\/span>t-m-h<\/span><\/em> - \u201csurprise, bewilderment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\r\nJacob says to his sons: And God Almighty give you mercy<\/em>.
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\r\nJacob is referring to mercy<\/em> from Joseph.
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\r\nJoseph, having disguised himself as a tyrant. Joseph, in the process of exacting vengeance on his brothers, Jacob\u2019s other sons, who years and years earlier
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\r\ncast Joseph into a pit to die.
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\r\nBut when Joseph sees his brother Benjamin (his closest brother), Joseph\u2019s mercy was kindled toward his brother<\/em>.
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\r\nAnd Joseph tends to his brothers.
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\r\nAnd he forgives them.
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\r\nAnd he feeds them in famine and gives them land.
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\r\nAnd they grow from a family into a people.<\/p>\r\n


\r\nii
\r\nMercy runs from God Almighty<\/em>, down to Joseph. <\/p>\r\n

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Divine mercy becomes human mercy.
\r\n
\r\nDivine kindness becomes human kindness.
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\r\nThe nation of Jacob\u2019s family is created in that translation.
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A full-scale drama takes place around Benjamin, and he remains silent. \u00a0He is silent when his father refuses to send him with his brothers to Egypt, he is silent when they take him to Egypt, he is silent when the strange and shocking man who is in charge in Egypt blesses him (Genesis 43:29). \u00a0He is silent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One might think that Benjamin is a little boy whose family takes care of his affairs, but Benjamin is already a father on his own to ten children, no less (according to Chapter 46), and therefore it is reasonable to assume that he is already 30 years old or perhaps older. \u00a0But he remains silent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps he was not silent, but the Torah chose to tell us that he was silent in order to indicate that he was an object around which the endless mourning over his brother was taking place, as if the space left by his brother had swallowed him, and he had remained without any independent existence. The entire significance of his existence is that he is the child who stayed behind. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And perhaps, like other children who are left behind, he understood at an early age that he must remain silent. \u00a0He understood that in order for his father to see him he must fulfill this role, that is, he must remain the little child for whom others make the decisions, decide his fate and what he should do. In this way, one can pretend that life has not moved forward without that brother.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cMay God be gracious to you, my boy\u201d (Genesis 43:29), says Zaphenath-paneah (Joseph\u2019s Egyptian name) to Benjamin. It is possible to imagine all the brothers whispering to each other and asking: \u201cWhat did he say?\u201d and deliberating afterwards among themselves did he bless him that God will pardon him or God will grant him good fortune? 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No matter how old or accomplished we may become, somewhere inside we remain a child, forever seeking the love and reassuring presence, pride and comfort of our parents. We want to share with our mothers, and our fathers, our hard-earned successes and achievements in life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So how sad it is when our parents \u2013 for whatever reason - are not there to see them, not there to heap blessings and encouragement and love on us when we finally make it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This was the one major tragedy of Joseph\u2019s life \u2013 that the grandeur of his station was unknown to his parents, that he knew his mother would never see how he had grown and it was unclear if his father ever would. Inside this man who was second-only-to-Pharaoh lived an unfulfilled \u00a0little boy - eager to show his parents what he had become, eager to make them proud of him, eager to bask in and be the source of their tender feelings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

All this was no doubt swirling around inside Joseph as he once again saw his brothers, and especially Benjamin. No doubt Benjamin awakened this yearning child in Joseph. For Benjamin was not only his full brother, but a reminder to Joseph of himself as a child, and the blessings of which he was deprived. For Benjamin, unlike Joseph, lived a lifetime in his native land, speaking his native language, in the midst of a loving father and a slew of brothers, all of whom doted on and cared for him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The emotions must have been building in Joseph for all the months he had been anticipating this encounter. \u00a0And then, seeing Benjamin, he spoke those three tender words (v. 29): \u201cMay-God be-gracious-to-you, my-son.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In a flash, this mighty man who had buried so many feelings of pain, fear and loss over the years was now overcome with emotion \u2013 so he ran from the room to cry.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why just then? What was it about that moment, those words? It was no doubt in part the special feelings he had for Benjamin, unique among all the brothers. But perhaps it was also because those words \u2013 which slipped seemingly spontaneously from his mouth - were echoes of words he had often heard, words his mother and father would say to him. \u00a0And all of a sudden, it must have seemed that it wasn\u2019t Benjamin standing there before him, but himself \u2013 the beloved lost child of Rachel and Jacob.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So the dam broke, and Joseph cried. He cried for his lost childhood; for the cuddling, comforting intimacy that was stolen from him as a boy; for the loving touch of his mother \u2013 and perhaps father \u2013 that he would never feel again; for the man he never got to show them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Vayigash<\/em>\u2026and he approached.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judah steps forward, approaching. Bold move. Uncertain outcome. Turns out well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judah is all about stepping forward, being courageous, and taking responsibility even to his own detriment. We take the name Jew from him\u2026this is part of our identity. Our heritage.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbis understand Judah\u2019s actions as steadfast and directed. He had a goal. And he would not stop talking with Joseph until his brother was released. While the Torah reveals a soliloquy from Judah (in fact it\u2019s the longest speech in the book of Genesis) the rabbis read in a dialogue. Joseph\u2019s voice cannot be heard, but Judah talks and talks and talks as if trying to anticipate Joseph\u2019s responses\u2026with each new thought, he takes another risk in addressing Joseph. In challenging authority. \u00a0Attempting to change his mind. And sure enough, Joseph breaks down.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It was not Vayigash \u2013 and he approached once. Like tying cords to cords and threads to threads, Judah carefully and deliberately ties together words and sentences. Each word, each sentence, another step forward. Another approach towards Joseph\u2019s heart. Each moment a risk that he would go too far. That Joseph might snap back. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judah <\/span>IS<\/span> all about stepping forward, being courageous, and taking responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is also about this quality of endurance.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of strength and fortitude over an extended period of time.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>We are not asked to step forward only once in our lives \u2013 we are asked to continually approach.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While Judah seems to approach all alone, we can choose NOT to go alone. The Torah tells us earlier that the brothers were in conversation about how to handle Joseph. It\u2019s possible that Judah was the elected representative for the group to START, but that others would have spoken next had he be unsuccessful. He may have been the first and only speaker, but he was not in this alone. When he stepped forward, and spoke, and spoke, and tied his words together\u2026pushing forward, confronting his fears, approaching Joseph\u2026his brothers were with him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As Jews, we take our name from Judah. Yehuda. We inherit his legacy. \u00a0Again and again, we will be asked to approach and encounter difficulty...but we are not required to approach alone. We are Judah\u2026AND we are the brothers who accompany him. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

We must step forward with courage and endurance and we are the ones who stand by their side.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Do not read Vayigash, he approached once, but rather Vayigshu\u2026and <\/span>they<\/span> approached.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

May we be blessed with the strength to continue approaching together!<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":103732,"alt":"","title":"-624c294542471--624c294542473gen44-step up 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Judah, unlike his father, who pleads self-righteous innocence when his family is in fact guilty of the crime of which he is accused [ch. 31], admits guilt to a crime he has not committed\u2026<\/p>\r\n

The speech he delivers (Gen. 44:18\u201334)\u2014sixteen verses of text\u2014is longer than any number of quintessential narratives (the entire narrative of Babel, for example, is only nine verses) and the longest monolog in the Torah. The word that begins the sentence in which he starts to speak, and, indeed, the name of the Torah portion, is vayigash<\/em>, variously translated as \u201cand he approached\u201d and \u201cand he drew near\u201d (Gen. 44:18).<\/p>\r\n

This verb appears only five times in the book of Genesis, each on a momentous occasion, signaling either superhuman effort, or sealing spectacular deception. Its first appearance describes Abraham\u2019s action in Genesis 18, after God has revealed his plan to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Vayigash Abraham vayomer<\/em> \/ \u201cAnd Abraham came forward and said . . .\u201d (Gen. 18:23) introduces Abraham at his most bold, \u201ccoming near\u201d to God\u2014with all the implications such a phrase entails\u2026. Judah, with this verb, will approach what is for him the embodiment not of heavenly, but of earthly power\u2014and not for a principle or for hypothetical people he does not know, but for a beloved, if clearly flawed, father.<\/p>\r\n

It\u2019s in recounting the narrative of that very father that we encounter the other three appearances in the Torah of the word vayigash<\/em>. In Gen. 27:21, Isaac demands of Jacob (masquerading as Esau) gish-a li<\/em> \/ \u201cPlease approach me.\u201d Verse 22 begins Vayigash Yaakov<\/em> \/ \u201cAnd Jacob drew close to his father Isaac, who felt him and wondered, \u201cThe voice is the voice of Jacob, yet the hands are the hands of Esau\" (Gen. 27:22). \u2026In verse 26, Isaac again bids Jacob approach: Gisha na ush\u2019ka li<\/em> \/ \u201cApproach and kiss me,\u201d and we\u2019re told Vayigash vayishakh lo<\/em> \/ \u201cAnd he approached and kissed him\u201d (Gen. 27:27)\u2026.<\/p>\r\n

The fourth appearance of the verb, when Jacob single-handedly moves the stone in front of the well for the beautiful Rachel\u2014vayigash Yaakov vayagel et haeven<\/em> (Gen. 29:10)\u2014signals a rare superhuman physical achievement in the Five Books of Moses\u2026<\/p>\r\n

The vayigash<\/em> that introduces Judah\u2019s transformational speech both aligns him with Abraham and Jacob at their most heroic\u2014one spiritually so, the other physically so\u2014and also serves to reverse the intergenerational trend of brother mistreating brother in which the verb doubly appears. It establishes Judah both as demonstrating the human equivalent of Abraham\u2019s spiritual daring, and the emotional equivalent of his father\u2019s superhuman physical effort on behalf of love\u2014as well as setting him out as the antithesis of his father Jacob at his worst moment. With the speech that follows this verb, Judah will reverse not only his own sin against his own brother, but his father\u2019s sin against his\u2026.<\/p>\r\n

The very reason Judah and his brothers treated Joseph so cruelly\u2014their father\u2019s favoritism\u2014has become the centerpiece of Judah\u2019s plea to Joseph on Benjamin\u2019s behalf. He offers to take Benjamin\u2019s place as slave\u2014\u201cTherefore please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the boy\u201d (Gen.44:33)\u2014for the very same reason that he sold Joseph into slavery. The reason for sin becomes the reason for repentance; the nature of the sin\u2014turning his father\u2019s favorite\/his own brother into a slave\u2014becomes the mechanism of repentance: offering to serve as slave in his father\u2019s favorite\u2019s\/his brother\u2019s stead. The speech, therefore, is an instance of perfect repentance; the action it offers, similarly, comes as close as Judah can to reversing his treatment of Joseph through his efforts on behalf of Joseph\u2019s only full sibling.<\/p>\r\n

(Excerpted and reprinted with permission from the essay \u201c'That We May Live and Not Die': Judah as Life Force of Genesis,\" by Jaqueline Osherow, in:\u00a0Reading Genesis Beginnings<\/span><\/em><\/a>, Beth Kissileff, editor, Bloomsbury, 2016, pp.
\r\n231-234).<\/p>\r\n

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In Genesis 45:3, Joseph finally reveals his true identity to them: \u201cJoseph said to his brothers, \u201cI am Joseph. Is my father still well?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He had been aware from the moment that they had come before him, that these were indeed his siblings, but until now, the text states that they had not known Joseph\u2019s true identity: \u201cFor though Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him\u201d (verse 8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Beit HaLevi<\/em> <\/span>(Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, 1820-92) explains Joseph\u2019s addition \u201c\u2026Is my father still well?\u201d as a subtle rebuke. Since Joseph had earlier inquired regarding Jacob\u2019s well-being (43:27), his now posing the identical question intended to put the lie to the claim Judah was making:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now, if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us \u2014 since his own life is so bound up with his - <\/span>\u00a0<\/b>When<\/span> he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will send the white head of your servant our father down to She\u2019ol in grief (44:30-1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If twenty years before, the brothers were able to coldly declare Joseph dead, why suddenly now re Benjamin, were they taking Jacob\u2019s state-of-mind into consideration?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One could state that this entire situation was sharpened by a parent\u2019s publicly showing favoritism to one of his children (giving Joseph the special coat), leading the Talmud to declare:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A person should never distinguish one of his sons from among the others, as due to the weight of two sela\u2019s of fine wool that Jacob gave to Joseph beyond what he gave the rest of his sons, his brothers became jealous of him, and the matter unfolded, and our forefathers descended to Egypt (Shabbat 10b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet, upon revealing himself, instead of attributing in part his suffering to his father\u2019s indiscretion, Joseph compounds the tradition of preferential treatment, by conferring on Benjamin money and additional sets of clothing, far beyond what his brothers are given: \u201cTo each of them, moreover, he gave a change of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and several<\/span> changes of clothing\u201d (45:22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As the Talmud itself (Megilla 16a-b) queries: \u201cIs it possible that in the very thing from which that righteous man (<\/span>Joseph<\/span><\/i>) had suffered, he himself should stumble?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph reassured his siblings that he believed that it was God and not them who was responsible for all of his travails:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God has sent me ahead of you to ensure your survival on earth, and to save your lives in an extraordinary deliverance. So, it was not you who sent me here, but God\u2026 (45:7-8)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, continuing Beit HaLevi\u2019s line of reasoning, perhaps he preferred to continue testing and probing to see if they had truly changed? How would they react if he were to give his one full sibling, Benjamin, extra \u201cswag\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Having taking the extraordinary step of revealing himself to his brothers, Joseph is met with what must have been silence born of terror. Instead of an emotional reunion, then, we hear a theological discourse, as Joseph fumbles for words and thoughts to put his brothers at ease:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be distressed or be remorseful that you sold me here; it was to keep life going that God sent me ahead of you. \u2026 God sent me ahead of you to ensure your survival on earth, and to save your lives in an extraordinary deliverance, so it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his household, and ruler over the whole land of Egypt!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whether Joseph believed this prior to encountering his brothers is impossible to say. Earlier he had thanked God for helping him escape the oppression of his father\u2019s Canaanite house, and for helping him flourish in his new land of affliction (41:51-52). In our chapter, he seems to be convinced that that original understanding of the plan was flawed, and the real purpose was only now fully revealed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The role of God in the story of Joseph is, literarily, complicated. God disappears for the first time in the story of the sale (Genesis 37), and never \u201cappears\u201d to Joseph, although Joseph gives God plenty of credit throughout.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The idea that \u201cnow it all makes sense\u201d is a powerful one. But it is a fraught one, as well. Can anyone ever really be sure that it\u2019s all clear now? I prefer the honest approach of the farmer in the old Taoist story, whose horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. \"Such bad luck,\" they said sympathetically. \"Maybe,\" the farmer replied. The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. \"Such good luck!\" the neighbors exclaimed. \"Maybe,\" replied the old man. The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. \u201cSuch bad luck!\u201d \"Maybe,\" answered the farmer. The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. They passed by the young man with the broken leg. \u201cSuch good luck!\u201d \"Maybe,\" said the farmer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On my reading, this is the approach of the author of Esther, as well. Everything works out in the end, and Esther and the Jews live happily ever after. But did it all work out so well for Joseph, actually? \u201cA new king arose, who did not know Joseph,\u201d and the bondage of Egypt began. The author of Esther won\u2019t say, therefore. There is no comment at the end of the book that \u201cthis turns out to have been a divine plan all along.\u201d Many Jews have read Esther and said, \u201cAha! 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\u201cIt was God who brought me here,\u201d Joseph proclaims to his brothers. Sounds like some Monday-morning quarterbacking! In hindsight, Joseph can see that had his brothers been kinder, had they not reacted to his smart-alecky smugness with unspeakable cruelty, abandoning him and selling him into slavery, he \u00a0may not have ended up as the wealthy second-in-command to Pharaoh. Only because he can look back at his traumatic past from a position of power and privilege can Joseph see that it all turned out for the best.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet despite his success, in the two chapters just preceding this one, it is clear that Joseph still feels the pain of his brothers\u2019 treachery. He tricks them, he ties Simeon up, he demands they deliver Benjamin to him. These are not the actions of someone who has forgiven past betrayals, or who has completely overcome past traumas.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Being thrown into a ditch by your brothers and sold into slavery, can certainly be viewed as trauma. And, like anyone who has suffered a traumatic experience, Joseph\u2019s healing does not follow a straightforward path. One day he can see the silver lining in the cloud, and the next he can once again see only the cloud. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps that is why the moment that Joseph declares \u201c<\/span>I am Joseph<\/i><\/b>\u201d is so powerful. The drama stems from the obvious physical revelation: Joseph\u2019s brothers do not recognize in the powerful prince the brother they last saw lying bloodied in a pit. But Joseph\u2019s words also speak to emotional processes: \u201cI am Joseph! Despite the changes, I am actually the same person you knew way back when. I am still that same smug, arrogant, shining Joseph. Yet I have also changed. I have undergone suffering and trauma, I have risen above it, I have healed; and I also carry the suffering with me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph\u2019s self-revelatory cry reminds us that retaining our identity, retaining our values and our perspective on the world, holding on to our sense of self, even when it is severely challenged in the aftermath of crisis, is simultaneously the most difficult aspect of post-traumatic processing, and also the one most necessary to enable healing. Perhaps it is to that place of balance between holding on to his identity, while recognizing that he has changed, that Joseph is referring to when he says, \u201cI am Joseph- and God has brought me here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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